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Brewer’s Dictionary
> Caddy.
Caddice
Cade.
CONTENTS
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
E. Cobham Brewer
1810–1897
. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Caddy.
A ghost, a bugbear. A caddis is a grub, a bait for anglers.
1
“Poor Mister Leviathan Addy!
Lo! his grandeur so lately a sun,
Is sinking (sad fall!) to a caddy.”
Peter Pindar: Great Cry and Little Wool,
epistle 1.
Caddice
Cade.
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